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IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1615: Networks and Neighbours, VI: Three Views of Empire and Kingdom - Byzantium, Denmark, and Norway

Thursday 10 July 2014, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:Networks & Neighbours Network
Organisers:Tim Barnwell, School of History, University of Leeds / Kısmet Press, Leeds
Jason Berg, School of History, University of Leeds
Ricky Broome, Leeds Institute for Clinical Trials Research (LICTR), University of Leeds
Michael J. Kelly, School of History, University of Leeds / Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Moderator/Chair:Hans-Werner Goetz, Historisches Seminar, Universität Hamburg
Paper 1615-aThe Roman Empire in the 6th Century: Considerations on the 'Fall of Rome' and 'Reconquest' according to the Gothic War
(Language: English)
Renato Viana Boy, Laboratório de Estudos Medievais, Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul, Santa Catarina
Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Political Thought
Paper 1615-bThe 'Thematic of the Counselor' in the Gesta Danorum and the Strengthening of the Danish Hegemony in the Medieval Baltic Area
(Language: English)
André Muceniecks, Departamento de História, Universidade de São Paulo
Index terms: Crusades, Ecclesiastical History, Political Thought
Paper 1615-cThe Spear, the Sword, and the Axe: St Michael the Archangel, St Óláfr and the Northern Crusades
(Language: English)
Renan M. Birro, Colegiado de História, Universidade Federal do Amapá / Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de São Paulo
Index terms: Crusades, Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract

This session aims to analyse historical and historiographical aspects of the Byzantine Empire, Scandinavia and the Baltic frontier in the Middle Ages. The foci for investigation are the exercise of power, legitimacy, aristocratic perspectives and the involvement of churchmen in political affairs. Likewise, the context of the production of history in both a narrow and a broad sense is not neglected. In short, we are concerned with hegemony and power in three different historical moments. Of course, the research finds both similar, general issues and very different, more localised problems in each case study.